name:"Calvert, Kathy" found 6 records - Research Collections

Abstract: An exciting and heart-pounding look at one of Western Canada’s most adventurous individuals, known as a pioneer pilot of the heli-ski industry and as the first mountain-rescue pilot in the Canadian National Parks system. Jim Davies is an icon of competence and courage as the first heli-skiing pilot in Canada. But it is his groundbreaking work as a helicopter rescue pilot for Parks Canada that made him a legend to all who worked with him. His stellar career as a pilot overshadowed his other talents as a ski racer and artist. Jim received several awards for his work in mountain rescue, including the Helicopter Association International – Pilot Safety Award of Excellence, the Alberta Achievement Award for excellence in helicopter flying, the Summit of Excellence Award at the Banff Film and Book Festival, and the Robert E. Trimble Memorial Award for “distinguished performance in helicopter mountain flying.” He is now retired and living in Banff, pursuing his love of painting and photography. (From Rocky Mountain Books)

Contents: Foreward; Acknowledgements; Growing up; A glimpse of the world; Birth of heli-skiiling in the Bugaboos; Changes: from Bugaboos to Banff; Permission or forgiveness; Development of the public safety program; Eclectice use of the helicopter; The contract; No lack of work; The coast and home again; Appendix: public safety in parks today; Endnotes; Bibliography

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Physical Description: 190 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm

Subjects: Ranching; Horses; Government; Warden Service; Parks Canada; Ya Ha Tinda Ranch

Abstract: "An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies. The story of the Ya Ha Tinda and its evolution into the only continuously operating federal government horse ranch in Canada is much more than the story of the people who worked and lived there. Its ancient history is an amalgam of geological evolution, with archaeological evidence of ancient indigenous people's use of the land for over 9,400 years and a biophysical inventory of flora and fauna unique to this particular landscape. So important is this small footprint, that it has been the source of a constant struggle for control between governments and special interest groups since the early 1900s, when the Brewster Brothers Transfer Company first obtained a grazing lease in the area for raising and breaking horses for their guiding and outfitting business in Banff and Lake Louise. This unique book covers the 100 years since the inception of the ranch: its challenges to survive intact to the 2017 centennial celebration and the stories of the men and women who worked and survived on the spread as they fought the elements and the politics to keep it as a "home place" for both the warden service and Parks Canada."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: ch. 1 Discovery -- ch. 2 The Golden Years -- ch. 3 An Uncertain Future -- ch. 4 Some Degree of Settlement -- ch. 5 Resolution to an Elusive Future -- ch. 6 The Shifting Scene.

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